.TH MKDIST 8
.SH NAME
mkdist \- make a Minix distribution
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mkdist
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Mkdist
makes a Minix distribution on floppies.  Run the command as
.B root
and follow the instructions.  It will make one or two bootable installation
floppies and a compressed tar file of
.B /usr
on several floppies using
.BR vol (1).
.PP
The result can be installed on another system as described in
.BR usage (8),
except that all of
.B /usr
is saved on one set of floppies instead of being nicely split in binary
and source packages.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR tar (1),
.BR compress (1),
.BR vol (1),
.BR usage (8).
.SH NOTES
Also very useful for making backups.
.SH AUTHOR
Kees J. Bot (kjb@cs.vu.nl)
